Issue

Brotherhood

Artane Boys’ School, near Dublin, 1963,
run by The Congregation of Christian Brothers.

Peter Branson lives in Rode Heath, a village in South Cheshire, England. A former teacher and lecturer, he now organises writing workshops. Until last year he was Writer-in-residence for “All Write” run by Stoke-on-Trent Libraries.

Weather Radio

Long-Term Memory

Maryann Corbett

Maryann Corbett is the author of two chapbooks, Dissonance (Scienter Press, forthcoming) and Gardening in a Time of War (Pudding House, 2007) and co-winner of the 2009 Willis Barnstone Translation Prize. Her poems, essays, and translations have appeared or are forthcoming in River Styx, Atlanta Review, The Evansville Review, The Dark Horse, and many other journals in print and online. She lives in St. Paul and works for the Minnesota Legislature.

When I see “Flora”

Barbaro: Beyond Brokenness

author: Lyn Lifshin
ASIN or ISBN-10: 1933896167
binding: Paperback
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Another Woman Who Looks Like Me

It is Lyn Lifshin's gift to seem perfectly artless, to make poems of immediacy and power from the humblest of near-to-hand materials. In this, her third collection to be published by Black Sparrow, her themes are those of classic lyric poetry -- the innocence of childhood, the ecstasy of lovemaking, the mystery of death -- and her word choices are the poetic equivalents of the artist's circles, squares, and primary colors.

author: Lyn Lifshin
ASIN or ISBN-10: 1574231987
binding: Paperback
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Persephone

author: Lyn Lifshin
ASIN or ISBN-10: 1597091243
binding: Paperback
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The Licorice Daughter: My Year with Ruffian

"Thoroughbred racing has never gotten over Ruffian. Lyn Lifshin came out of nowhere to become a Ruffian fan, a zealot for everything Ruffian stood for and all that she touched. Her poems will carry you away to a field of Kentucky foals, to the racetrack where each new horse could be the one, to the bone-numbing feeling of a runaway winner and to the despair of watching brilliance flame out. Ruffian would have liked Lifshin."-Sean Clancy, author of Saratoga Days